In every parish that I have been assigned, each parish was actively engaged in assisting the poor and helping women and families have their children by choosing life and not death!
At St. Teresa’s Church in Albany, Georgia it was “Neighbors in Need” and the St. Clare Center.
At the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist, it was the Social Apostolate now Catholic Charities.
At The Church of the Most Holy Trinity in Augusta, it was Catholic Social Services.
At Saint Joseph Church in Macon, it was Mother and Child Ministries, the Saint Vincent de Paul Society and DePaul’s Daybreak and the Kolbe Center.
Let me brag a bit about DePaul USA’s Daybreak in Macon. When I was pastor of St. Joseph’s, Daughter of Charity, Sister Elizabeth Grim came to me with what I thought at the time was just a wild idea that would never get off the ground.
Boy was I wrong!
But I knew how convincing she could be and thus I supported her in her efforts and simply got out of her way so she could do it and do it she did!
The video above is about the good works that DePaul USA Macon’s Daybreak continues to do.
The link below gives more evidence of following the Church Social Teachings concerning the poor:
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Charity is good and admirable but we also need to address the structural inequalities that cause poverty.
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